Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute

Discoid loom weights are a distinctive type of weaving tool widely found at Bronze Age sites across the Aegean region. The identification of these artefacts in the Cypriot record sheds new light on the contacts between the island and the Aegean at the dawn of the Late Bronze Age. This paper aims to analyse the earliest examples of Cypriot discoid loom weights, retrieved from early Late Bronze Age contexts at Kalopsidha and Enkomi. The study focuses on their function and implications concerning the adoption of new weaving tools and likely practices within a period of profound social and economic transformations on the island. While transfers of technologies and practices to Cyprus are largely hypothesized for the various changes reflected in the material culture of this period, the transmission dynamics remain largely unknown. Therefore, discoid loom weights provide us with a new perspective from which to examine the mechanisms of the spread of tools and practical knowledge to the island during this crucial period.

Cyprus is an island in the Mediterranean Sea.Consequently, it is expected that Cypriots are good fishermen and fishing activities are part of their daily lives through the time.However, folk verses and historical evidence dated to the 18th and 19th centuries AD present a different view.Based on this data, fishing was an occasional activity, because the amount of fish in Cypriot waters was small.This research attempts to analyse this evidence and to reveal that fishing was an essential part of the daily life of Cypriots during 18th and 19th centuries.

The study of ancient Greek and Latin in Australia and New Zealand, especially at Sydney Church of England Grammar School in New South Wales, produced this century a number of leading scholars who made a major contribution to the study of Old World archaeology in Europe and Australia this century. Among them were V. G. Childe, T. J. Dunbabin, J. R. Stewart and A. D. Trendall. In developing their respective fields of expertise, all spent some time in Greece, as students, excavators, research workers and soldiers, and had formative links with the British School at Athens. Australia's debt to the Classics is reflected not only in the life-long attachment to their legacy, and to Greece, by the former Prime Minister, the Hon. E. G. Whitlam, but in the perpetuation of their influence in such Colonial and modern structures as the monument of Lysicrates in Sydney's Botanic Gardens and the National Library and new Parliament House in Canberra, and in an official poster illustrating multiculturalism in Australia. Despite their role in shaping Australia's European history, the teaching of Classics is under threat as never before, and the late Enoch Powell, at one time Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Sydney, has stigmatised the obscurantism which threatens to impoverish if not undermine Western civilisation by closing access to knowledge of our Classical past.

Keaktifan siswa menjadi salah satu faktor utama penentu keberhasilan pembelajaran. Strategi belajar yang digunakan guru akan sangat menentukan keaktifan siswa di kelas. Kesalahan dalam memilih strategi pembelajaran akan membuat siswa menjadi pasif di kelas. Sikap siswa yang pasif akan membuat siswa tidak dapat belajar dengan maksimal. Oleh karena itu, penting bagi guru untuk merancang pembelajaran yang dapat memfasilitasi siswa untuk terlibat aktif dalam setiap proses pembelajaran. Tidak hanya sampai di situ, penting bagi setiap pendidik Kristen untuk merancang pembelajaran yang aktif dan bermakna agar para siswa juga mendapatkan kesempatan mengagumi Allah dalam proses pembelajaran di kelas. Hal tersebut dapat dicapai dengan menerapkan strategi pembelajaran Problem Based Learning dengan wawasan Kristen Alkitabiah karena tujuan utamanya bukan hanya siswa aktif namun juga agar siswa makin mengagumi Allah melalui konsep-konsep yang dipelajari di kelas. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mendeskripsikan penerapan strategi Problem Based Learning dengan wawasan Kristen Alkitabiah agar dapat memotivasi keaktifan siswa. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif. Penelitian dilakukan di salah satu sekolah Kristen di Tangerang yang dilakukan selama satu bulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan penerapan strategi PBL dengan wawasan Kristen Alkitabiah dilakukan melalui lima tahap yaitu mengorientasi, mengorganisasikan, membantu penyelidikan masalah, mengembangkan dan menyajikan hasil karya siswa, menganalisis dan mengevaluasi proses pemecahan masalah berhasil memotivasi keaktifan siswa dalam pembelajaran dengan topik pemuaian.